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ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINE PRESSBR FEET;

No. 244,074. Patented July 12,1881.

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FREDERICK S. PRESCOTT, OF MEREDITH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO THE GOLDMEDAL SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF ORANGE, MASS.

ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING -MACHINE PRESSER-FIEET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,074, dated July 12,1881.

Application filed April 7, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FREDERICK S. PRESCOTT, of Meredith, county ofBelknap, State of New Hampshire, haveinvented anew and usefulImprovement in Sewing-Machine Presser-Foot Attachments, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification.

This invention in sewing-machines has for its object the production ofan improved presserfoot attachment, whereby a piece of raw-edged or biasmaterial may be folded at each edge and be laid upon a piping, or uponedging or lace interposed between the said folded strip and the materialupon which thefolded strip and piping, 850., are to be stitched.

Figure 1 represents, in perspective, the side and under portion. of apresser-foot having a binder and guide attached to it in accordance withmy invention; Fig. 2, a top view of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a section of Fig. 2on the dotted line 00 m, and Fig. 4 a diagram showing the class of workwhich my improved attachment is adapted to perform.

A is supposed to be a presser-foot of a shape commonly used on the Homeand other shuttle sewin g-machines, b being a slot for the passage ofthe needle.

In accordance with my invention 1 have combined with this presser-foot adouble binder, B, it having two lips, 0 0', adapted to receive a bias orraw-edged strip, (1, (see Fig. 4,) of cloth, and turn its edgesunderneath, as therein shown, laying the said strip horizontally uponthe top of a layer of cloth, 0, which may be a dress-skirt or othergarment. At the rear of this double binder is placed a guide, f, made asa loop, having a tongue, g, the edge of which terminates at the right ofthe needle-hole b. This guide is adapted to receive in and about thetongue 0 a bias or raw-edged piece of material, h, and fold and deliverit between the turned edges of the strip (1 and the fabric 0, as at theright of Fig. 4, the needle of the sewing-machine entering the saidmaterials and stitching them to- 5 gether by a line of stitching, as ati. One edge having been stitched, as'described, the fabric 6 may bereversed and the other edge of the folded strip (1, that previously inthe lip 0, may be thereafter placed in the control of the lip 0 and beguided to the needle, to be stitched to the fabric e, and with orwithout the intervention of a piping, h.

If it should be desired, a piece of edging, or lace, or fringe, as at I,(see left of Fig. 4,) may be placed between the fabric 0 and the foldededge of the strip d.

I am aware that a hemmer has been applied to a presserfoot, inconnection with a guide, to deliver a piece of edging or folded materialbetween the parts of the fabric forming a hem, the said fabric beingturned upward and over about the edge of the edging.

I claim The presser-foot A and attached binder, hav- 6 5 ing the lips c0, combined with the guide, to receive and lay a piping or edgingbetween the material rested upon the cloth-supporting bed and thedownwardly and inwardly turned edge of the strip of material folded bythe binder, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERIGK S. PRESCOTT.

Witnesses:

WM. B. W001), J. N. VAN TAssEL.

